Jeremy Richard Benjamin was born in Western Massachusetts in 1981, grew up around the Boston area and then moved to mid-coast Maine at the age of thirteen. He entered the University of Southern California in the year 2000, studied mechanical engineering for four years and then dropped out of the program and am currently a student of creative writing. He likes to boast that he was once a garbage-man. His hobbies include filmmaking, weightlifting, hiking, mountain-biking and intentionally getting lost in strange places. He had been dedicated to the craft of writing since third grade.